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Thursday, 7 July 2016
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I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Amendment 174, page 167, line 40,...
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I shall speak to new clause 14 and amendments 174 to 176. Amendment 174 would remove clause 82 fr...
The hon. Lady makes a compelling case. One of the major challenges we face in the UK is geographi...
I certainly do not think that it will address the issue that the hon. Gentleman raises—quite the ...
Does the hon. Lady acknowledge that, even after this cut, CGT rates in this country will still be...
I note the hon. Gentleman’s point and thank him for making it.
If I could see some real ben...
I know that when I mention the word “investor” in this House, some Opposition Members get a littl...
I want to speak to the Labour party’s new clause 14 and amendment 174, which, as has been ably po...
It is important, particularly in relation to entrepreneurial relief, to point out that the last t...
To be fair, the new clause does not ask the Treasury to come back in such a short time; it asks f...
I appreciate that my constituency is hardly typical as far as these matters are concerned —nor, i...
The right hon. Gentleman makes a good point. Perhaps we need to think about having differential p...
Will the hon. Lady give way?
I will not take another intervention; I am sorry. I just want to mention briefly the Prime Minist...
I will speak briefly in favour of amendment 151 on carried interest. In my time as a Member of Pa...
Has the OECD not recommended that all carried interest should be treated as income?
It has, but there is a distinction between different elements of carried interest, and we are try...
I entirely echo the right hon. Gentleman’s comments about simplification. I may attempt to catch ...
Obviously, the hon. Gentleman does not know me, or indeed the Minister, well enough to know that ...
The right hon. Gentleman is making some very important points about simplification and its impact...
I am sure there is a lot of truth in that. I was a businessman before I entered the House. It was...
I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate, which was opened by my hon. Friend the...
Does my hon. Friend agree that of all those reliefs, the biggest scandal is tax relief on pension...
My hon. Friend makes an important point. The conundrum of how we fund, finance and incentivise pe...
I will start by outlining the Government amendments in the group before responding to some of the...
The Minister says that the measures will drive investment. What evidence is there for that?
That point has been made repeatedly. Contributions from those critical of the policy often miss t...
I beg to ask leave to withdraw the clause.
Clause, by leave, withdrawn.
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
In this final debate, there is an array of amendments and new clauses to consider across a wide r...
Will the Minister confirm that, now we are leaving the EU, we would have no intention of raising ...
As the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU said yesterday in his responses to the lengthy state...
I am grateful to the Minister for what she has said about the proposals. I am pleased that it has...
I thank the Chairman of the Treasury Committee for his indication of support for these arrangemen...
If the United Kingdom opts for non-membership of the single market following Brexit, the UK Gover...
As a number of Ministers have made clear in the House, we need to consider a huge range of issues...
When does the Minister think the autumn statement will be delivered?
The Chancellor will make that clear in due course.
As the Minister knows, the issue of distributional analysis is of great importance to the Committ...
Treasury Ministers and the Chancellor take points made by my right hon. Friend and his Committee ...
I thank the Minister for giving way. She is being most generous.
Yesterday, in an intervent...
As I have said, the date will be confirmed in due course, but I think it reasonable to assume tha...
I am disappointed by the Minister’s concluding remarks on amendment 141, which is in my name and ...
In the absence of the Government showing any willingness to take the bull by the horns on tax sim...
I quite agree with the hon. Lady. Sadly, I am unlikely ever to be a Minister, but I am hoping tha...
I had hoped to clear up my point in an earlier intervention on the Minister, but I fear that I wa...
I rise to address amendments 180 to 182 and new clause 19, tabled in my name and those of my hon....
It is a pleasure to take part in this stage of our consideration of the Finance Bill. I was inter...
I was a “remainer”, so at the risk of sounding like the right hon. Member for Wokingham (John Red...
I welcome reluctant converts to the cause of Brexit, whenever they come. That is a silver lining ...
It has never seen an apple!
It has never seen an apple. The Minister intimated that the same is true of pears. We need to loo...
My hon. Friend pre-empts the point I wished to make, and is making a typically eloquent speech. F...
That is a welcome intervention. I welcome the Minister to her place, as she has wide experience i...
On that point, and particularly on the point about whether parents choose to stay at home or to w...
The hon. Lady tempts me into a wider debate. If the Minister were to respond on this, she would c...
There are several new clauses on which I intend to speak—most of them briefly—and the first is ne...
Does the hon. Gentleman agree that this would be a relatively cheap way of incentivising househol...
I thank the hon. Gentleman and agree wholeheartedly with his comments.
From cuts to solar s...
The Finance Bill was devised prior to the vote to leave the European Union. The measure under dis...
I must admit that I have sympathy with all who have reservations about any position taken in this...
I rise to support new clauses 2 and 3, the social justice arguments for which, in support of some...
I rise to support amendment 141, which is in my name and those of my hon. and right hon. Friends....
It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stalybridge and Hyde (Jonathan Reynolds). I ...
I have a couple of questions about Government new clause 9, which relates specifically to Norther...
I commend all hon. Members who have made very valuable contributions, in particular the hon. Memb...
There is another imbalance in the system. I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman is aware that ...
I could not agree more and I would like to make a comment on that later. New clause 3 clearly out...
Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the highest levels of marriage breakdown occur when children are...
As always, the hon. Lady is wise in her interventions. I thank her for what she said, which under...
I wish to speak to new clauses 15 and 19, and amendments 141 and 180 to 182, which were tabled in...
The hon. Lady referred to the issues that we have debated this afternoon as a “rag-bag”, but I th...
I thank the Minister for those comments. I have a small sense of frustration as I believe that ne...
I thank the hon. Gentleman for that and look forward to our meeting.
Several Members spoke ...
Our consideration having been completed, I shall now suspend the House for no more than five minu...
I can now inform the House that I have completed certification of the Bill, as required by the St...
indicated assent.
The House forthwith resolved itself into the Legislative Grand Committee ...
I remind the Committee that although all Members may speak in the debate, only Members representi...
I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.
I remind the House just how import...
I pay tribute to the Financial Secretary for the way in which she has led the final stages of the...
A great deal has happened politically since the March Budget and during the passage of the Financ...
I thank the Minister and her Treasury colleagues, past and present, for their progress of the Bil...